America, now in its twenty-fifth year, has sold more 1.2 million copies over the past seven editions and remains the most affordable history text on the market. The narrative wins students over with compelling storytelling, colorful anecdotes and biographical sketches that make the material more memorable. The text includes helpful in-text study aids, and a host of electronic media resources to help teachers teach and students learn. A book students will read.

Table of Contents List of Maps Preface 1 The Collision of Cultures 5 2 England and Its Colonies 48 3 Colonial Ways of Life 106 4 The Imperial Perspective 163 5 From Empire to Independence 195 6 The American Revolution 240 7 Shaping a Federal Union 283 8 The Federalists: Washington and Adams 319 9 Republicanism: Jefferson and Madison 360 10 Nationalism and Sectionalism 396 11 The Jacksonian Impulse 432 12 The Dynamics of Growth 469 13 An American Renaissance: Romanticism and Reform 512 14 Manifest Destiny 560 15 The Old South: An American Tragedy 602 16 The Crisis of Union 644 17 The War of the Union 690 18 Reconstruction: North and South 751 19 New Frontiers: South and West 796 20 The Rise of Big Business 838 21 The Emergence of Modern America 877 22 Gilded-Age Politics and Agrarian Revolt 926 23 The Course of Empire 971 24 Progressivism: Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson 1004 25 Wilson and the Great War 1046 26 The Modern Temper 1092 27 Republican Resurgence and Decline 1120 28 Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal 1155 29 From Isolation to Global War 1203 30 The World at War 1235 31 The Fair Deal and Containment 1287 32 Through the Picture Window: Society and Culture, 1945-1960 1326 33 Conflict and Deadlock: The Eisenhower Years 1357 34 New Frontiers: Kennedy and Johnson 1395 35 Rebellion and Reaction in the 1960s and 1970s 1437 36 A New Gilded Age 1493 37 Cultural Politics 1536 App. The Declaration of Independence A1 App. Articles of Confederation A5 App. The Constitution of the United States A12 App. Presidential Elections A30 App. Admission of States A38 App. Population of the United States A39 App. Immigration to the United States, Fiscal Years 1820-1990 A40 App. Immigration by Region and Selected Country of Last Residence, Fiscal Years 1820-1989 A42 Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries of State A49 Chronology of Significant Events A54 Illustration Credits A65 Index A73

America, now in its twenty-fifth year, has sold more 1.2 million copies over the past seven editions and remains the most affordable history text on the market. The narrative wins students over with compelling storytelling, colorful anecdotes and biographical sketches that make the material more memorable. The text includes helpful in-text study aids, and a host of electronic media resources to help teachers teach and students learn. A book students will read.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents List of Maps Preface 1 The Collision of Cultures 5 2 England and Its Colonies 48 3 Colonial Ways of Life 106 4 The Imperial Perspective 163 5 From Empire to Independence 195 6 The American Revolution 240 7 Shaping a Federal Union 283 8 The Federalists: Washington and Adams 319 9 Republicanism: Jefferson and Madison 360 10 Nationalism and Sectionalism 396 11 The Jacksonian Impulse 432 12 The Dynamics of Growth 469 13 An American Renaissance: Romanticism and Reform 512 14 Manifest Destiny 560 15 The Old South: An American Tragedy 602 16 The Crisis of Union 644 17 The War of the Union 690 18 Reconstruction: North and South 751 19 New Frontiers: South and West 796 20 The Rise of Big Business 838 21 The Emergence of Modern America 877 22 Gilded-Age Politics and Agrarian Revolt 926 23 The Course of Empire 971 24 Progressivism: Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson 1004 25 Wilson and the Great War 1046 26 The Modern Temper 1092 27 Republican Resurgence and Decline 1120 28 Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal 1155 29 From Isolation to Global War 1203 30 The World at War 1235 31 The Fair Deal and Containment 1287 32 Through the Picture Window: Society and Culture, 1945-1960 1326 33 Conflict and Deadlock: The Eisenhower Years 1357 34 New Frontiers: Kennedy and Johnson 1395 35 Rebellion and Reaction in the 1960s and 1970s 1437 36 A New Gilded Age 1493 37 Cultural Politics 1536 App. The Declaration of Independence A1 App. Articles of Confederation A5 App. The Constitution of the United States A12 App. Presidential Elections A30 App. Admission of States A38 App. Population of the United States A39 App. Immigration to the United States, Fiscal Years 1820-1990 A40 App. Immigration by Region and Selected Country of Last Residence, Fiscal Years 1820-1989 A42 Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries of State A49 Chronology of Significant Events A54 Illustration Credits A65 Index A73